She sat outside the bar for a few minutes to watch how the dress code was enforced and found that the dress code was only “strictly enforced” when it came to young black men. But students wearing UW sports jerseys and Bucky the Badger athletic wear were permitted entry with no issues.
Like many young black men, I’ve also encountered the Jim Crow Dress Code. I tried walking into 45th Street Pub in Edgewater Park, NJ to have a few drinks with a buddy, when I was stopped at the door and told I couldn’t enter with the hat I was wearing. I looked around the bar, which was filled with all kinds of hat wearing drinkers. Cowboy hats, hoods, baseball caps, Jeff’s, trucker hats, etc. I just couldn’t understand why my hat was so bad? Do knit hats kill people? Do they start fights? The only crime my hat committed that night was being a popular head garment for young African American men.
Discrimination comes in all shapes and sizes. In today’s society most of it is hidden within secret racially-coded dialogue, which slide under our radar. If a dress code offends you or you feel it could be discriminatory, take a picture, put it on Facebook and get the word out about how you feel. No, you can not make them change their rules, but you can hit them in the pocket and that’s better than sitting alone in your room, hurt because all you wanted was to be treated like everyone else.
words by: Blogzworth Wordsmith
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